I agree. Unless there isn't a product which matches your needs I personally would consider my time better spent contributing to a project that has only a short distance left to go rather then starting a new project which would take months/years before perfection (if there is such a thing)
Onto my opinions of the technical aspects of creating a control panel in php... there are two ideas (that I see looming obvious on the horizon)... Both of these ideas deal with permissions. To be a truly effective 'system control panel' it would be necessary to have root priv's to accomplish tasks... the fact that apache runs as a specific non-root user (and if it doesn't it d#%!#$^mned well should!) is a drawback... Webmin circumvents this project by incorporating its own http/https server which runs on an assigned port (idea 1). Otherwise it may be possible to use a php front-end-script which modifies a text file, mysql, or some other form of database, and either a daemon script running as root or a single pass script running as a cron job... this process would interpret information in the data file and act accordingly on the server. PHP is a wonderful lang. in my experience, and it's becoming more advanced by the second. I don't think the problem would be the lang. itself but the time invested in learning it and implementing it... So I guess it boils down to these questions: 1) do you NEED to do it? 2) do you want to do it? 3) are you willing to invest in yourself to get it done? >From my experience creating these types of things tends to be a thankless job right up until the end :) stick in there and it's possible... -----Original Message----- From: Miguel Cruz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 5:49 PM To: Paul ... Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] building a control panel in php On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Paul ... wrote: > just thinking about making a small control panel for my server so i can do > the web hosting related things from the web... would php be a good language > to do this in and if so why?.. what would be the ups and downs? The fastest way would be to download Webmin from here (http://www.webmin.com/), then change all the comments so it says you wrote it. Seriously, you might want to look into that because a lot of people have already put a lot of work into making something fairly comprehensive. miguel -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
